Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

“I asked myself if I could not sell something and succeed in life. I had fo quite a while been good for nothing…Finally the idea of invetnig something insincere came to me and I got to work immediately”.  Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic carer with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime. His career began in 1964, following a period of more than two decades labouring in some obscurity as a poet. He also wrote articles on art during these years. Moving flexibly between media – from decor and objects to artist’books, prints, film and writings – Broodthaers embodied the “post-media artist” for whom any form could be recruited in teh service of a larger conception. Those conceptions included institutional critique (of which he was a pioneer), art-historical critique, pastiche and philosophical-linguistic puzzles.

Edited by Broodthaers’ daughter Marie-Puck, and with a range of both known and previously unseen works, a biography, exhibition chronology and a selected bibliography, this volume is the largest and most authoritative Broodthaers manographe ver published.